BUBIACEM. ' 489 



to a dentate-ciliate wing, albuminous. — A tree or shrub, glabrous or 

 pubescent ; leaves opposite, oblong-obtuse, petiolate ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar, 3-angular, somewhat persistent ; flowers ' in short terminal 

 compound cymiferous racemes ; bracteoles cetaceous.'^ {Both trop, 

 Americas.^) 



180. Mussaendopsis H. Bn.^ — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle 

 turbinate. Calyx lobes 5, of which one sometimes foliaceous, petio- 

 late ; the others 3-angular, slightly connate at base. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; petals subfree, closely contorted, right margin covered. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on receptacle under epigynous disk; filaments 

 free ; anthers short introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; disk epi- 

 gynous conical produced ; lobes of short and at apex shortly clavate 

 style 2, stigmatose, subequal. Ovules in cells oo, inserted on axile 

 placenta. Fruit short capsular, septicidal ; seeds oo, produced on both 

 sides to a narrow wing ; embryo rather large, sparsely albuminous. — 

 A tree (?) very glabrous except at inflorescence ; leaves opposite, 

 elliptical-acuminate, subunequal at base, coriaceous, penninerved ; 

 veins crowded subtransverse ; petiole rather long; stipules inter- 

 petiolar oblong membranous enclosing terminal bud of ramule ; flowers^ 

 axillary in long-pedunculate opposite branched and cymiferous cymes.^ 

 (Borneo.'^) 



181. Hillia Jacq.^ — Flowers subregular; receptacle obovoid or 

 tubular. Calyx entire or 2-5-lobed, oftener circumscissile at base ; 

 lobes foliaceous. Corolla hypocrateriform or sometimes funnel-shaped; 

 tube long ; throat dilated glabrous ; lobes of limb 8-7, imbricate or 

 sometimes contorted. Stamens as many, inserted under throat; 

 filaments short or ; anthers basifixed elongate exappendiculate, 

 enclosed. Germen 2-celled; disk thick epigynous; style clavate to 

 apex, 2-fid, obtuse enclosed. Ovules oo, inserted on axile 2-lobed 

 placentas. Fruit ^ capsular cylindrical or subclavate truncate, septici- 



^ Small, white or ochreous, odorous. side, on the other CaJycophyllum. It also re- 



2 A genus in flowers resembling Coptosapelta sembles Mussaotda in its oo-ovulate cells and 

 on the one hand, and on the other the pluri- foliaceous sepal, but corolla subdialypetalous 

 ovulate species of Favttta^ but seeds winged. and contorted. 



3 Spec. 1. C. africana. — C. Koischi/a/m^FEszL. ^ Spec. 1. M. Beccariana H. Bn. loc. eit. 



loc. cit.—Ki'EB.^, Fl. Trop. Afr.iu.ii.—C.febri- '^^ SL Amer. 96, t. 66.— L. Gen. n. 444.— 



fuffa Benth. Niger Fl. 381. — Bondeletia africana Lamk. III. t. 257. — GiEKTX. F. Fruct. iii. 97, t. 



WixTERB. Ace. S. Leone, ii. 46 (1803).— i?. 197.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. 388.— Rich. Bub. 207. 



febrifuya Afzel. ex G. Don, Gen. Si/st. iii. — DC. Prodr. iv. 350. — Exdl. Goi. n. 3277. — 



(1832) 516. B. H. Gen. ii. 39, n. 31. —Fereiria Vandell. Fl. 



* Adansonia, xii. 282. Lns. et Bras. 21, t. 1, fig. 8 ; Bam. Scr. 98, t. 6. — 



* Small. Saldanha Vell. Fl.Flnm. 141, Atl. iii. 1. 157,158. 

 ^ A genus resembling Crossopte>-yx on one ^ Folliculiform. 



